August 21, 2022

It looks like you've acquired yourself an Amy Carver. Congratulations! Having an Amy can be a lot of fun, but she's a temperamental creature and comes with a wide variety of needs. If your Amy is feeling blue, try cheering her up with one or more of these activities: 

- Have her call a friend or her mom.

- Complete a stretching video. 

- Go to the beach. 

- Eat a cookie. 

- Drink a glass of water.

- Have a cup of coffee. 

- Go on a walk (just or in combination with any other of the suggested activities). 

- Drink a beer. 

- Lie on husband's chest and match his breathing. 

- Watch a Twitch stream (Richard Herring Self-Playing Snooker or Blindboy) or go to an Alice salon. 

- Go to the gym. 

- Watch a Youtube video on science. 

- Do dishes or sweep the floor. 

- Cook a meal. 

- See a movie in theaters.

August 8, 2022

 Quickly dashing something off here. Time's been flying in Edinburgh. I think it's because it takes so much time to walk everywhere. I think -- oh I have an hour and twenty minutes, that's a lot. But it's not really when everything is at least a ten minute walk from everything else. And it's 30-40 minutes if I want to go back to the dorm. Lots of steps. I love the steps. 

It's so cool to be here. I was worried I would feel very harried, but the shows have been energizing so far. (I've seen 3!) The vibe is nice. The art. The fans. The old buildings and cobble stones. It's a nice hustle. I already want to come back in some future year. 

August 6, 2022

Frantic thoughts. I'm like an over tired child right now, not wanting to go to sleep, except that I'm an over tired adult not wanting to go to sleep. Keeping Mitch up next to me with the annoying type type type of the keyboard. 

This trip has been fun as shit. But I'm also hitting the skids of not eating healthy enough, not stretching, not writing, not having my routine. Staring at Mitch's face for ten hours a day. (What more can we talk about at this point? I forget about third things (very stupidly). I keep trying to dredge the well of how we're feeling, of deep thought. When really we should talk about our favorite birds or something. Get a goddamn hobby, Amy. Some interest of some sort. Welcome to our thirteenth year of marriage.) 

Met an Olympic gold medalist today. She's one of the guests staying in this bnb. 

Reading Alice's posts from the Fringe. She sounds as frantic as I feel. I'm looking forward to seeing her show and meeting her in person. I wonder how tall she is. I bet she's kind of short. Lots of people are kind of short in real life. 

I haven't done any writing. I will probably be a loser in front of Lizze. I've just been taking the vacation. 

Finished mainlining The Trespasser by Tana French. She is drugs to me. The mystery is good. The over-thinking and analyzing of behavior is intense. Exactly what I would like to be an expert at -- both in writing and in person. I'd love to be able to read people with a high degree of accuracy. People are the scariest things there is. 

August 3, 2022

I was going to write a blog post everyday (and I'm supposed to do 15-30 pages for Lizze), but those things haven't been happening. Mitch and I are in Bergen now. It's the morning, and I'm starving. I want to go get some coffee and Norwegian waffles (or at least pastry). People drink coffee all day here (or at least Kyle and Anne do). I'm all for that. The comforters - the duvets - are two separate ones, one for each person, not one big one. No sheets to speak of. The showers are little walled in stalls in the corner. Not walled in, glass doored in. The floor is the same as the rest of the bathroom, just with a drain in it. The tap water is gooood here. What else? 

They don't do lines great, here. I'm excited to get to the UK for that. The flowers look amazing, all that indirect sunlight. 

We took the train from Hamar into Oslo then from Oslo to Bergen. The train was canceled from Voss to Bergen. Voss! What a city. So gorgeous. So we took a bus the rest of the way. It was too dark to see the prettiest part of the country -- all the fjords and stuff. We're about to embark on Bergen on foot right now. Hopefully we'll see some of that. It's rainy. Brought my rain coat.